Like most of us, we are interested in ALL TenTec products but we don't
want to belong to 18 different reflectors. Now everyone wants to be Mr.
Moderator I suppose and all it accomplishes a inflated ego.
I am more interested in old TenTec products such as the Corsair, Omni C
etc. but you don't see me starting another reflector for TenTec
boatanchors do you???? Well at least you didn't put it on Yahoo.Com.
N4LQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Tanton <n4xy@earthlink.net>
To: tentec@contesting.com
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:42:20 -0500
Subject: Re: For cryin' out loud... Re: [TenTec] Powermite Users Group?
> Hello Paul... et al... I'm certain we are (or at least: "were") as
> welcome
> as anyone on the "REAL Ten*Tec reflector" Paul... but there's nothing
> at
> all wrong with a discussion group about a sub-topic that... well... has
> nothing but a logo to do with all the very fine NEW stuff being
> produced. I
> seriously doubt anyone would have ever said a word when details about
> improving PowerMites, or about PowerMite-to-PowerMite QSOs, were
> threaded
> over and over again. After all, they ARE Ten* Tec's too. Yet, many
> DELETE
> keys would have been worked very hard clearing out the PM stuff many TT
> aficionados aren't the least bit interested in.
>
> OTOH... as much as I like Ten*Tec-the-company, there's NO CHANCE
> anywhere
> in the near future I can afford the nice one. I just wish I could
> afford to
> get my (or another one like it) OMNI VI back. The idea of $4000 for ANY
> Ham
> Radio XCVR in THIS economy continues to boggle my mind. As I have said
> before, and pointedly to TT management, the idea of $4000 for an
> otherwise-modern Ham Radio XCVR ** with a B&W screen ** utterly
> BLOWS
> mind. (Yes I know: no one would have heard more than the slightest
> little
> "pop" when it went.) IF I had the $4000 to spare, I would immediately
> buy
> the nice RX-340 TT Receiver... but certainly not an that expensive an
> XCVR
> from anyone. That fact limits my interest in the majority of the posts
> on
> the reflector... but I wouldn't dream of leaving (well... voluntarily,
> anyway). I love the company, I love the OMNI VI, and I have an abiding
> interest in that truly small subtopic: the PowerMite. (OK... I also OWN
> (and like to read about) the Argonaut II and the PARAGON... and would
> like
> to get a good example of the '509.)
>
> What does the paragraph above have to do with a spin-off TT-PM
> reflector?
> It is meant to illustrate that with the diversity of products from
> TT-versus detailed commentary on a "Vintage Solid State" rig that is
> technically somewhere near the Solid-State Stone Age; with that
> diversity,
> some-if not many-people might not so be interested in frequent,
> detailed
> QSO accounts of TT-PM users-much less DC receiver improvements on a
> try-this-then-try-that basis, for a 30+ year old QRP XCVR.
>
> What I suppose I resent here is the tone of your note Paul. If it had
> been
> PRIVATE, I would have merely been somewhat offended. It sounds haughty.
> As
> a PUBLIC comment, it takes on different implications, and I am
> thoroughly
> offended, instead. It sounds as if "we three" are up to something; or
> have,
> in some way, intentionally insulted the reflector. I do not personally
> believe that anyone intended any such thing. If the Interest Group
> crashes
> and burns for lack of interest, then so be it. That'll be just fine. It
> sounded like a good idea at the time (to me, anyway.)
>
> If ANYTHING significant (technically speaking) about PowerMites had
> come
> up, I would have been the first to transport it over. Now I am less
> certain
> that I would care to.
>
> I have to be missing something here.
>
> Regardless, this will be my last Reflector-wide comment on the subject.
> I
> will not be drawn into a mud-slinging contest for any reason. If I have
> anything else to say, it will be PRIVATE w/o regard for other future
> "PUBLIC" comments by anyone.
>
>
>
> 73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>
>
> Ed Tanton N4XY
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